Suman Naishadham

  • Europe heat waveEnvironment

    July 2025 was the third-hottest ever recorded, EU scientists say

    By Paolo Santalucia, Suman Naishadham, and others
  • Travelers covered with Red Cross blankets lie on the floor, as they prepare to spend the night at the Cordoba train station, following a massive power cut affecting the entire Iberian peninsula and the south of France, on April 28, 2025. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said today authorities were not ruling out any cause for the widespread blackout across the Iberian pensisula. “All potential causes are being analysed, I insist, without ruling out any hypothesis, any possibility,” Sanchez told a press conference, 11 hours after Spain and Portugal were plunged into darkness for reasons that had yet to be determined. (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO / AFP) (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    Spain’s historic April 28 blackout sparks new debate over green energy shift

    By Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press
  • The awning is seen torn from a 7-Eleven convenience store after a tornado caused by Hurricane Milton.Environment

    Hurricane Milton unleashes unusually violent tornadoes rivaling Great Plains

    By Isabella O'Malley, Suman Naishadham, and others
  • President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the D.C. Emergency Operations Center, Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Politics

    Biden proposes new workplace rule to protect workers from heat injuries as millions of Americans suffer blistering temperatures

    By Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press
  • File – A volunteer distributes drinking water next to a bus stand on a hot summer day in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, March 21, 2024. Another month, another heat record for the planet. Earth just had its warmest March ever recorded, the 10th month in a row to set such a record, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)Environment

    March was the 10th month in a row to be the hottest on record, scientists say

    By Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press
  • Claudia SheinbaumPolitics

    Mexico’s top presidential candidate is an award-winning scientist who doesn’t want to talk about climate change

    By Dorany Pineda, Suman Naishadham, and others
  • Michael MannEnvironment

    ‘It’s a good day for science’: Penn scientist famous for ‘hockey stick’ graph on climate change wins $1 million verdict on defamation claims

    By Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press
  • Man standing in large hole in the groundEnvironment

    The water source that supplies farms, homes, industries, and cities worldwide is rapidly depleting. But it’s a story of ‘bad news and good news,’ study shows

    By Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press
  • Katie HobbsEnvironment

    Saudi Arabia was pumping water on 10,000 acres of drought-stricken Arizona. The governor just stripped its leases

    By Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press
  • Satya NadellaTech

    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella takes the stand against Google and admits even ChatGPT hasn’t helped its market share

    By Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press
  • New York smoke

    Millions of Americans suddenly discovered what the world has known for years: Air quality is terrible

    By Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A construction worker continues building at a large housing development, April 21, 2020, in Phoenix. Arizona will not approve new housing construction on the fast-growing edges of metro Phoenix that rely on groundwater thanks to years of overuse and a multi-decade drought that is dwindling its water supply. In a news conference Thursday, June 1, 2023, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced the pause on new construction that would affect some of the fastest-growing areas of the nation’s 5th largest city. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)Environment

    Arizona is cutting housing construction near Phoenix because there’s no longer enough water

    By Jacques Billeaud, Suman Naishadham, and others
  • This combination of three separate photos shows Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy, left, Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy, center, and Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy, from the HBO series “Succession.” (HBO via AP)Lifestyle

    ‘Succession’ fans are reeling from the series finale: ‘I will be thinking about this for a while’

    By Suman Naishadham, Andrew Dalton, and others
  • FILE – People attend a news conference on Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, April 11, 2023, near Boulder City, Nev. Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday, May 22, proposed a deal to significantly cut their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)Environment

    3 Western states say they’ll cut their water use from the Colorado River if the U.S. government pays them $1.2 billion

    By Suman Naishadham, Ken Ritter, and others
  • FILE – Workers, who were hired by residents, remove sargassum seaweed from the Bay of Soliman, north of Tulum, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Aug. 3, 2022. On shore, sargassum is a nuisance — carpeting beaches and releasing a pungent smell as it decays. For hotels and resorts, clearing the stuff off beaches can amount to a round-the-clock operation. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)Environment

    A 5,000-mile wide belt of seaweed is scheduled to wash ashore on Atlantic beaches and vex hotel workers

    By Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press